What gets me is a 90 year old man with high blood pressure, sleep apnea, hemorrhoids, and any number of other disqualifying medical afflictions can get in an RV, with a GVW over the 10,000 lb limit set for a commercial med card, an drive it coast to coast, North to South, pulling a vehicle/trailer, and never worry about having to be 'checked out' to say he's healthy enough to do it.
On the other hand, try to make a living, and they do everything in their power to make it as impossible as they can to do.
Now, just be lucky your not like me and have 'white coat syndrome'. In other words, the second I walk through the door into a doctors office, my blood pressure goes up. I was diagnosed with it as a teen, and it hasn't gotten any better as I have aged. I can, and do, routinely keep track of it at home and I always stay around 120/80. On the other hand, I've had it taken at the doctors office and seen it jump in excess of 170/90 plus before dropping back, just not all the way back to where it needs to be.
I 'passed' three physicals with them letting me have time to rest/relax, and then letting the doctor come in and use a regular cuff instead of the machine. Not sure if it really went down enough or not, but the doc showed it as being good on the report.
The last time I went in there was a new nurse practioner doing everything. Just her deemener didn't set well with me, but it was what it was. Anyways, I told them going in my blood pressure was going to be up, and to give me enough time and it could drop, which it did, just not enough because they kept screwing with me. For instance the female nurse practitioner said I really needed to get a physical therapist to say I was OK to drive because I had hurt the end of my left index finger....even though I had just left the specialist's office an hour before and went from a chicken leg sized dressing to a single Band aide..
How the heck did they think a hurt finger was going to effect me driving? Anyways, they decided I could go get a note from the specialist and waive the physical therapist deal. So they said to go get a note and they would bring me immediately back in when I returned. I figured it would give me time to get out of the office and let my blood pressure drop, so I was all for it.
So, I went and got the note. They took my blood pressure within 5 minutes of me walking back in with the note. The assistant who took it said I was good to go, and she would let the nurse know. They made me wait another 15 minutes before the nurse came back in. By this time it has already gone above normal again. She decided she'd give me ten minutes and try again. When she came back it was higher than it was to begin with.
At this point I just said to heck with it, took the three month card, and haven't been back. I know I need to do it again, as I do go out of state on occasion, but I have no idea how to get it to drop when the doctors office is what makes it go up. Like I told them, I avoid doctors to stay healthy.
What do I do from here, I don't know. I refuse to spend time and money going to half a dozen doctors for them to tell me something I already know. I'm thinking seriously about trying it again, but to start taking aspirin a week or so before to thin my blood enough to keep it down when I go in. Thing is I know this can potentially hurt me by causing it to drop too low.....
Thus I am stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place......dealing with one of the most idiotic rules I have ever seen, especially in light of what I mentioned in my first paragraph......
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